Student-centered learning in online and blended education on computer information systems

The effectiveness of learning and training in many ways depends on increased demand for student´s convenience, including his/her time, pace and place of learning. Pedagogical strategies that are based on total use of state-of-the-art technologies such as Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) correspond to the highest level of student´s convenience. As a part of the National Science Foundation´s grant # 0196015 (2000-2004), Bradley University (BU) and its InterLabs Research Institute (IRI) develop innovative teaching and learning technologies based on four founding principles: 1) student-centered principles of education, 2) Web-lecturing based on streaming multimedia technologies, 3) modularity of learning content based on reusable learning objects (RLO) approach, and 4) equivalence of learning content delivery using traditional in-classroom face-to-face (F2F) education, online education, and blended education. This paper summarizes author´s findings on student-centered learning in online and blended education of the BU academic course on computer information systems.